Environmental Health Sciences Courses

Program | Faculty | Master's | Courses

Core and Required Courses

BIOST&EP 540 Introductory Biostatistics

BIOST&EP 630 Principles of Epidemiology

COM-HLTH 601 Principles of Community Health Education

COM-HLTH 620 Principles of Public Health Practice

COM-HLTH 624 Research Methods in Public Health

ENV-HLTH 565 Environmental Health Practices

PUBHLTH 690M Public Health Informatics

Informatics content applicable to administrative and clinical systems used in public health. Analyzes the application of information science and technology to public health practice.

PUBHLTH 690N Current Topics in Public Health Practice

Ecological approaches frame how prevention, control, health promotion, protection, and emergency measures protect the public's health. Topics include health disparity, cultural competence, geonomics, workforce planning, credentialing, and media communication.

PUBHLTH 691S PHP Capstone Experience

Evidence-based practice project in final semester provides an opportunity to study a selected practical and current public health problem. Students apply critical thinking, analytic abilities, and communication skills that integrate the core academic areas of biostatistics, epidemiology, health education, health policy, and environmental health. The resulting report acts as the official written comprehensive examination. The fulfillment of the culminating experience requirement is expected to meet specific publishing guidelines. Graded on a pass/fail basis.

Elective Courses (choose 9 credits)

COM-HLTH 524 Introduction to Health Politics and Policy

COM-HLTH 525 Ethical Issues in Public Health

COM-HLTH 580 Comparative Health Care Systems

COM-HLTH 621 Health Care Organization and Administration

COM-HLTH 628 Financial Management of Health Institutions

COM-HLTH 704 Health Program Planning

COM-HLTH 726 Health Economics and Reimbursement

COM-HLTH 780 Public Health Law

ENV-HLTH 567 Environmental Regulation and Compliance

PUBHLTH 690E Public Health Emergency Management

Provides an operational overview of public health management in preparing for and responding to disasters, which, by definition, cannot be effectively managed by the application of routine procedures or resources. Provides needed guidance in a variety of newly defined and emerging areas for the field of public health.

PUBHLTH 690L Leadership of Public Health Systems

Course and field work focus on leadership theory, development, and competencies of contemporary public health leaders. Also includes the application of health policy leadership.